Understanding how and why Fred Aldous Ltd uses cookies

Fred Aldous Ltd uses cookies to ensure the best possible experience for you on our website. The cookies we use allow you, as a user to do things like; create an account, use the other functions of our website, place items in your basket and place orders with us.
On the first visit to www.fredaldous.co.uk, we make visitors aware about our use of cookies. To find out more about our use of cookies and the benefits they bring, please take time to read through the rest of our cookie policy.

Frequently asked questions

Do your cookies mean I could get unwanted calls or mail?We never use data gathered by cookies to contact you by post, phone or email. We occasionally use cookies to show you tailored content on our website or other websites of things we think you might be interested in, but only in relation to our products.

Do you use cookies to pass my personal data to others?We will never ever use cookies to share your personal data with third parties unless we have asked your express permission.

Do cookies reduce security?Cookies in use are totally safe. Many of them are used only to provide vital security features such as; protecting your data and your accounts help with us.

What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are sent to and stored on your computer, smartphone or other device for accessing the internet, whenever you visit a website. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user's device.
At Fred Aldous Ltd, we use cookies for many different reasons, such as to determine preferences, let users navigate between pages efficiently, verify the user and carry out other essential security checks. Some of the functions that cookies perform can also be achieved using similar technologies. This policy refers to ‘cookies’ throughout, however it also covers these alternate mechanisms.
More information about cookies can be found on allaboutcookies.org.

How cookies make our website safer and easier to use.
Fred Aldous Ltd employs the use of cookies to protect your privacy when browsing our website. We also use them to let you find and compare products and use our website securely. If you leave the website with products in your basket cookies will be used to remember those products on your next visit. For example, instead of displaying promotional messages about products you already have, they let us show you different products you may also have an interest in.
We also use analytics cookies to help improve the website for our regular visitors. Cookies help us work out what our visitors like and dislike.